Below is a selected list of some of Dr. Twenge’s 100+ scientific journal publications. Some of the links are to the full text; in other cases only the citation and abstract are online due to the journal’s copyright restrictions. Those articles can be obtained via college libraries or purchased from the journal. Much of this research is also presented in iGen, Generation Me, and The Narcissism Epidemic.

Twenge, J. M., Sherman, R. A., & Wells, B. E. (2017). Sexual inactivity during young adulthood is more common among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, period, and cohort effects on having no sexual partners after age 18. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 433-440.

Twenge, J. M., Dawson, L., & Campbell, W. K. (2016). Still standing out: Children’s names in the U.S. during the Great Recession and correlations with economic indicators. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46, 663-670.

Twenge, J.M., Honeycutt, N., Prislin, R., & Sherman, R. A. (2016). More polarized but more Independent: Political party identification and ideological self-categorization among U.S. adults, college students, and late adolescents, 1970-2015. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1364-1383.

Twenge, J. M., Sherman, R. A., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2016). More happiness for young people and less for mature adults: Time period differences in subjective well-being in the United States, 1972-2014. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 131-141.